Mega Projects

Project Title

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Sabah Al Ahmed City

Location

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Client

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Public Authority for Housing Welfare

Cost

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2.1 B KWD

Size

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35,000,000 M2

Duration

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Sabah Al Ahmed City has a total area of 35,000,000 m2 in addition to a surrounding green belt and a ring road of 500 hectares. Sabah Al Ahmed City has 5 residential neighborhoods (A,B,C,D, and E) with an area ranging between 300-450 hectares each. The city includes and is not limited to 9,600 Housing plots (600 m2 each), public buildings such as schools, mosques, medical clinics, shopping malls, markets, youth centers, sporting clubs, gas stations, public parks, governmental buildings, police stations, and etc.

The city is fully designed and planned to accommodate all of its resident’s needs. An Axial Service Center, at the city’s center is centrally located in close proximity to the neighborhoods to service their needs. It includes all the commercial, educational, entertainment, health and financial facilities, various governmental buildings, offices and public service buildings, in addition to the Islamic Center, the city’s landmark.

The city is complete with an investment residential area, an industrial area, entertainment area, and various type service buildings.

Dar Al-Dowailah Engineering Consultants & Construction Managers role for Sabah Al Ahmed City was to develop the complete masterplan of the city, prepare complete design for all its components. The scope also included all road works, infrastructure works, public buildings, service buildings, residential villas prototypes, covering the following scale:

Main Roads: 50 to 100 m wide, and of 61 km length (including all infrastructure)

Major roads: 36 m wide, and of 92.7 km length (including all infra-structure)

Service roads: 25 m wide, and of 320 km length (including all infra-structure)